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Delay in passage of PIB hurting Nigeria’s economy – Kachikwu
Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of…
11 migrants, including 6 children, drown off Greece
Eleven migrants, including six children — four of them babies — drowned on Sunday in a new tragedy off the…
Vote out Wada, liberate yourselves from poverty, Oyegun tells Kogi electorate
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Saturday urged the people of Kogi to…
NLC, TUC directs workers in Kogi to begin strike
Public service workers in Kogi State have been directed to stay off work on Nov. 2 to protest against non-release…
Bishop urges FG to fix bad roads
The Anglican Bishop of Niger, Chiedozie Nwokolo, has urged the Federal Government to repair bad roads across the country to…
Group to Ambode: Review judicial staff composition
Eromosele Ebhomele @selemele2 A Lagos, Nigeria-based right group, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, on Saturday pleaded with…
PDP needs rebranding -APC insists
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said the resort to crude, personal attacks by PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh in his latest…
Ambode charges police to change crime fighting tactics
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has charged the State Police Command to step up their surveillance in the…
EFCC: Seven jailed for fuel theft
Seven men have been jailed for 10 years in Nigeria after being arrested with nearly 1,500 tonnes of contraband petrol,…
Lagos shuts Marina mosque over pollution
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut down Marina’s Workers Mosque on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria over poor…
I was bus conductor— Alex Iziyon
Renowned lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Alex Iziyon has spoken about his humble beginnings and the odds he…
FG urged to declare state of emergency on cancer
Prof. Francis Durosinmi-Etti, the President, Cancer Education and Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CEAFON), has called on the Federal Government to…
Telecoms operators lose 357,993 customers
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Saturday said that active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry reduced to 150,660,631 in…
Jose’s Headache: Coutinho’s brace compounds Chelsea’s woes
Losing at the Stamford Bridge was unthinkable in Jose Mourinho’s first term in charge of Chelsea but what used to…
Nigeria issues poster of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants
Nigeria’s army is posting a photographic collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants that features the shadowy leader whom they…
Kogi Guber: Immigration tells immigrants to steer clear
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…
U-17 WC: Nigeria face Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final
Taiwo Adelu The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will have their hands full when they confront Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final…
Emir of Borgu, a great patriot, unifier – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has received with great sadness and a deep feeling of immense personal and national loss, news of…
Herdsmen warned against negative conduct
The Special Adviser to Imo Governor on Livestock and Hausa Community Affairs, Mr Hassan Adamu, has advised herdsmen in Imo…
Akwa Ibom to set up 10 cassava processing plants
Akwa Ibom Government says it is planning to establish 10 modern cassava processing plants in the state. Gov. Udom Emmanuel…
Kogi election; Immigration warns foreigners
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…
U-17 World Cup: Nigeria ready for Brazil in quarter final clash
Taiwo Adelu The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will have their hands full when they confront Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final…
Court convicts 95 sanitation offenders
Two Mobile Courts sitting in Benin on Saturday convicted 95 people for various sanitation offences in the state monthly environmental…
Plane carrying 224 passengers crashes in Sinai
A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said. A “Russian…
VIDEO: Nigeria too broke, cannot afford 36 ministers – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has dropped hints that his government would prune the number of ministries in the government bureaucracy because…
UNAIDS adopts new strategy to end AIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Programme Coordinating Board on Friday adopted a new strategy to end the…
Survivors’ Stories: Documenting the human cost of Boko Haram
Ibrahim fled his home in Gwoza, northeast Nigeria, in August last year, when invading Boko Haram fighters took over the…
Spanish coast guard abandons search for 35 missing migrants
Spain’s coast guard said Friday it has called off the search for 35 migrants missing at sea after their boat…
S.Africa launches insider trading probe over MTN’s Nigeria fine
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange launched Friday an investigation into mobile giant MTN for “possible insider trading” before the South African…